A crude oil pipeline near Grand Marsh, Wis., has leaked 1,200 bbl, according to Enbridge Energy Partners LP who said July 27 that the leaked oil was quickly contained.

Enbridge Pipelines Inc. received permission from Canada’s National Energy Board to reverse the flow on a segment of its Line 9 crude oil pipeline, subject to 15 conditions, mainly related to pipeline integrity.

Oneok Partners LP, Tulsa, will spend between $980 million to $1.1 billion through 2014 on several projects in southeastern Texas and North Dakota.

Crosstex Energy LP and Crosstex Energy Inc., both of Dallas, have completed commercial contracting for Phase I of Crosstex Energy LP’s Cajun-Sibon NGL extension and Eunice fractionator expansion.

TransCanada Corp. has received the final of three key permits needed from the US Army Corps of Engineers to advance its 485-mile Gulf Coast Project, a crude oil pipeline extending from Cushing, Okla., to Nederland, Tex., near Houston.

Diluted bitumen (dilbit) from Alberta’s oil sands is so similar to heavy crude oils, which US pipelines have handled for years, that it is unlikely to pose corrosion problems, experts told a National Academies of Science panel on July 23.

Production capacity of Marathon gas-condensate field in Atchafalaya Bay offshore Louisiana has risen to 50-60 MMcfd with completion of a new pipeline, said Petsec Energy Ltd., Sydney.

Enagas subsidiary Transport Enagas SAU will acquire 90% of Naturgas Energy Transport from Energias de Portugal, including 450 km of high pressure gas pipelines and an international connection in Irun, Basque Autonomous Community, pending regulatory approvals.

Sunoco Logistics Partners LP affiliates Sunoco Pipeline LP and Inland Corp. have begun a binding open season for the Allegheny Access Pipeline project, transporting refined products from the Midwest to eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania markets.

The National Academies of Science will host its first data-gathering session for its Pipeline Transportation of Bitumen project July 23-24 at NAS’s headquarters.

DNO International ASA will replace a 4.3-km section of the 12-in. pipeline between the West Bukha and Bukha platforms offshore Oman after efforts to clear a blockage failed.

The US Bureau of Land Management has released an environmental assessment of a proposed 95-mile natural gas liquids pipeline in eastern Utah and western Colorado and is seeking public comments on the project, BLM’s Grand Junction field office said.

Busy Colombia operator Gran Tierra Energy Inc., Calgary, is targeting $60 million of capital expenditure deferments from its previously announced 2012 budget of $440 million in connection with curtailed production and lower commodity prices experienced this year.